China On Spy Balloon Row

The incident has sparked a diplomatic spat between the US and the China. (File)

Beijing:

China right this moment accused Joe Biden of “saying one factor and doing one other” in a direct rebuke of the US president’s choice to shoot down an alleged Chinese language spy balloon this month.

Relations between Beijing and Washington have additional soured since Biden ordered the army to take down the inflatable, which america claims was surveilling American territory.

Chinese language officers have vociferously denied the accusation, insisting the machine was a wayward climate statement plane with no army function.

The incident has sparked a diplomatic spat, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying in a tweet Sunday that he had “condemned the incursion” in a gathering with China’s high diplomat Wang Yi.

Requested concerning the tweet by Chinese language state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday, China’s international ministry stated Blinken had “uttered wild phrases and confused black with white”.

The shootdown was “one hundred pc abuse of army pressure, one hundred pc overreaction, one hundred pc hysteria”, spokesman Wang Wenbin stated at an everyday press convention.

He accused Washington of “fabricating a story”.

Biden “has repeatedly vowed publicly that he doesn’t search a brand new Chilly Warfare and has no intention of battle with China”, the spokesman stated.

“We hope that he, because the chief of a significant energy, can preserve his phrase and practise what he preaches, as a substitute of claiming one factor and doing one other.”

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